Saturday, September 5, 2015

In the article that I reproduce below, James Petras explains how Jews and Judaism make up the source and origin of an Empire of Falsehood. This Empire subsumes, in my opinion, the Abrahamic 'religions' as well as the fraud that calls itself the secular establishment of the West.
James Petras, according to his website, is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. "He is the author of more than 62 books published in 29 languages, and over 600 articles in professional journals, including the American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Social Research, and Journal of Peasant Studies."

The Doctrine of ‘Superior People’: The
Bond between Israel and World Zionism

By Prof. James Petras, Global Research, 05 September,
2015

The single greatest feat of Israel and
its overseas missions has not been material success, or the military conquest
of millions of unarmed Palestinians, it has been ideological – the widespread
acceptance in the US of a doctrine that claims ‘Jews are a superior people’.

Apart from small extremist rightwing sects who
exhibit visceral anti-Semitism and denigrate everything Jewish, there are very
few academics and politicians willing to question this supremacist doctrine. On
the contrary, there is an incurable tendency to advance oneself by accepting
and embellishing on it.

For example, in August 2015, US Vice-President
Joseph Biden attributed ‘special genius’ to Jews, slavish flattery that
embarrassed even New York’s liberal Jewish intellectuals.

Israel’s dominant role in formulating US Middle East
policy is largely a product of its success at recruiting, socializing and
motivating overseas Jews to act as an organized force to intervene in US
politics and push Israel’s agenda.

What motivates American Jews, who have been raised
and educated in the US to serve Israel?

After all, these are individuals who have prospered,
achieved high status and occupy the highest positions of prestige and
responsibility. Why would they parrot the policies of Israel and follow the
dictates of Israeli leaders (a foreign regime), serving its violent colonial,
racist agenda?

What binds a majority of highly educated and
privileged Jews to the most rabidly rightwing Israeli regime in history – a
relationship they actually celebrate?

What turns comfortable, prosperous American Jews
into vindictive bullies, willing and able to blackmail, threaten and punish any
dissident voices among their Gentile and Jewish compatriots who have dared to
criticize Israel?

What prevents many intelligent, liberal and
progressive Jews from openly questioning Israel’s agenda, and especially
confronting the role of Zionist zealots who serve as Tel Aviv’s fifth column
against the interest of the United States?

There are numerous historical and personal factors
that can and should be taken into account to understand this phenomenon.

In this essay I am going to focus on one – the
ideology that ‘Jews are a superior people’. The notion that Jews, either through
some genetic, biologic, cultural, historical, familial and/or upbringing, have special
qualities allowing them to achieve at a uniquely higher level than the
‘inferior’ non-Jews.

We will proceed by sketching the main outline of the
Jewish supremacist ideology and then advance our critique.

We will conclude by evaluating the negative
consequences of this ideology and propose a democratic alternative.

Jewish Supremacism

Exponents of Jewish Supremacism (JS) frequently cite
the prestigious awards, worldly successes and high honors, which, they
emphasize, have been disproportionately achieved by Jews.

The argument goes: While Jews represent less than
0.2% of the world population, they have produced 24% of the US Nobel prize
winners; over 30% of Ivy League professors and students; and the majority of
major US film, stage and TV producers.

They cite the ‘disproportionate number’ of
scientists, leading doctors, lawyers and billionaires.

They cite past geniuses like, Einstein, Freud and
Marx .

They point to the founders of the world’s great
monotheistic religions – Moses and Abraham.

They lay claim to a unique learning tradition
embedded in centuries of Talmudic scholarship.

Jewish supremacists never miss a chance to cite the
‘Jewish background’ of any highly accomplished contemporary public figures in
the entertainment, publication, financial fields or any other sectors of life
in the US.

Disproportionately great accomplishments by a
disproportionate minority has become the mantra for heralding a self-styled
‘meritocraticelite’…. and for justifying its disproportionate wealth, power and
privileges – and influence…

Challenging the Myths of Jewish
Supremacists

There are serious problems regarding the claims of
the Jewish Supremacists.

For centuries Jewish ‘wisdom’ was confined to
textual exegesis of religious dogma – texts full of superstition and social
control, as well as blind intolerance, and which produced neither reasoned
arguments nor contributed to scientific and human advancement.

Jewish scholarship of note occurred among thinkers
like Spinoza who revolted against the Jewish ghetto gatekeepers and rejected
Jewish dogma.

Notable scientists emerged in the context of working
and studying with non-Jews in non-Jewish institutions – the universities and
centers of learning in the West. The majority of world-renowned Jewish scholars
integrated and contributed to predominantly non-Jewish (Moslem and Christian)
and secular institutions of higher learning.

Historically, highly talented individuals of Jewish
origin succeeded by renouncing the constraints of everyday Jewish life,
rabbinical overseers and Jewish institutions. Most contemporary prestigious
scientists, including the frequently cited Nobel Prize winners, have little or
nothing to do with Judaism! And their contributions have everything to do with
the highly secular, integrated culture in which they prospered intellectually –
despite expressions of crude anti-Semitism in the larger society.

Secondly , Jewish Supremacists persist in claiming
‘racial credit’ for the achievements of individuals who have publically
renounced, denounced and distanced themselves from Judaism and have dismissed
any notion of Israel as their spiritual homeland. Their universal prestige has
prevented them from being labeled, apostate or ‘self-hating’.

Albert Einstein,
often cited by the Supremacists as the supreme example of ‘Jewish genius’,
denounced Israel’s war crimes and showed disdain for any tribal identity. In
their era, Marx and Trotsky, like the vast majority of emancipated European
Jews, given the chance, became engaged in universalistic organizations,
attacking the entire notion that Jews were a ‘special people’ chosen by divine
authority (or by the latter-day Zionists).

Thirdly, Supremacists compile a very selective list
of virtuous Jews, while omitting areas of life and activity where Jews have
disproportionately played a negative and destructive role.

After all is it Jewish ‘genius’ that makes Israel a
leading exporter of arms, high tech intrusive spy systems and sends military
and paramilitary advisers and torturers to work with death squad regimes in
Africa and Latin America?

Among the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize are three
Israeli Prime Ministers who waged wars of ethnic cleansing against millions of
Palestinians and expanded racist ‘Jews only’ settlements throughout the
occupied Palestinian territories. These include Menachem Begin (notorious
career bomber and terrorist), Yitzhak Rabin (a militarist who was assassinated
by an even more racist Jewish terrorist) and Shimon Peres.

Among Jewish
American Nobel ‘Peaceniks’ is Henry Kissinger who oversaw the brutal and
illegal US war in Indo-China causing 4 million Vietnamese deaths; who wrote the
‘template for regime change’ by overthrowing the democratically elected
government of Chilean President Allende and condemned Chile to decades of
police state terror; and who supported Indonesia’s destruction of East Timor!

In other words, these Nobel recipients, who
Supremacists cite as ‘examples of Jewish Supremacy’, have sown terror and
injustice on countless captive peoples and nations – giving the Nobel Peace
Prize a dubious distinction.

Among the greatest billion dollar swindlers in
recent US history, we d find a disproportionate percentage of American Jews –
curiously not mentioned by the Supremacists in their usual litany: Bernard
Madoff pillaged over $50 billion from his clients, Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken
and Marc Rich are well-known names adding the distinction of ‘Jewish genius’ to
a list of financial mega-felons.

Among the less respectable notables whose material
successes have been tarnished by personal weaknesses – we have the billionaire
and pedophile pimp, Jeffry Epstein; IMF Boss Dominique Strauss Kahn,
entrepreneur and ‘nudist’ Dov Charney, New York Governor and ‘repeat customer’
Elliot Spitzer, Congressman and exhibitionist Anthony Weiner and the fun-loving
sports impresario who brought down FIFA, the piratical Chuck Blazer. Curiously,
none of these extraordinarily successful notables have been cited as examples
of Jewish Supremacy.

As we contemplate the millions of war refugees
driven from the Near East and North Africa, we should credit the role of US
neo-liberal and neo-conservative ideologues and policymakers –a
disproportionate percentage of whom are Jews. Millions of Chilean workers
suffered as Milton Friedman and his Chicago Boys ‘advised’ Chilean Dictator
Augusto Pinochet on dismantling the welfare state (even if it required the
murder of trade unionists!). Ayn Rand (Alyssa Rosenbaum) and her fanatical free
market epigones have savaged all progressive social legislation and turned the
most retrograde forms of selfishness into a religion of ‘superiority’!

The disastrous US war against Iraq was largely
organized, promoted and justified by a disproportionate percentage of US Jews
(Zionists), including leading Neocon policymakers in the Bush and Obama
administration – Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Elliott Abrams, Dennis Ross,
Martin Indyk, David Frum, Shulsky, Levey, Cohen, Rahm Emanuel etc… They
continue to push for war against Iran and should be seen as the ‘godfathers’ of
the tragedies of Iraq, Syria and Libya where millions have fled.

The biggest financial crisis since the Great
Depression was largely due to the financial policies of Federal Reserve
chairman Alan Greenspan. The trillion-dollar bailout of Wall Street by Ben
Shalom Bernacke and Stanley Fischer, while Janet Yellen ignored the plight of
millions of Americans who lost their homes because of mortgage foreclosures. In
sum, Jewish Supremacists should proudly take credit for the American Jews who
have been disproportionately responsible for the largest economic and foreign
policy failures of the contemporary period – including the horrific suffering
these have entailed!

Back in the more normal world of crime,
Russian-Jewish mobsters dominate or share supremacy with the Italian Mafia in
New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Miami and scores of cities in between. They
display their unique genius at extortion and murder – knowing they can always
find safe haven in the ‘Promised Land’!

On the cultural front, the finest Jewish writers,
artists, musicians, scientists have emerged outside of Israel. A few may have
immigrated to the Jewish state, but many other intellectuals and artists of
note have chosen to leave Israel, repelled by the racist, intolerant and
repressive apartheid state and society promoted by Jewish Supremacists.

Conclusion

The record provides no historical basis for the
claims of Jewish Supremacists:

What has been cited as the disproportionate ‘Jewish
genius’ turns out to be a two-edged sword – demonstrating the best and the
worst.

Claiming a monopoly on high academic achievement
must be expanded to owning up to the Jewish authors of the worst financial and
foreign policy disasters – they too are ‘high achievers’.

Donations from financial billionaires, all
‘geniuses’, have financed the war crimes of the Israeli state and made possible
the expansion of violent Jewish settlers throughout occupied Palestine –
spreading misery and displacement for millions.

In fairness, the most notorious Jewish swindler in
contemporary America was even-handed: ‘Bernie’ Madoff swindled Jews and Goys,
Hollywood moguls and New York philanthropists – he wasn’t picky about who he
fleeced.

The latest fashion among Jewish Supremacist
‘geneticists’ is to extoll the discovery of uniquely special ‘genes’ predisposing
Jews to experience the ‘holocaust’ and even inherit the experience of suffering
from long dead ancestors. Such ‘scientists’ should be careful. As Jazz artist
and essayist, Gilad Altzmon wryly notes, ‘They will put the anti-Semites out of
business’.

Ultimately, Jews, who have assimilated into the
greater society or not, who inter-marry and who do not, are all products of the
social system in which they live and (like everyone else) they are the makers
of the roles they decide to play within it.

In the past, a uniquely disproportional percentage
of Jews chose to fight for universal humanist values – rejecting the notion of
a chosen people.

Today a disproportionate percentage of educated Jews
have chosen to embrace an ‘ethno-religious’ Supremacist dogma, which binds them
to an apartheid, militarist state and ideology ready to drag the world into a
global war.

Never forget! Racialist supremacist doctrines led
Germany down the blind ally of totalitarianism and world war, in which scores
of millions perished.

Jews, especially young Jews, are increasingly
repelled by Israel’s crimes against humanity. The next step for them (and for
us) is to criticize, demystify and stand up to the toxic supremacist ideology
linking the powerful domestic Zionist power configuration and its political
clones with Israel.

The root problem is not genetic, it is collective
political dementia: a demented ideology that claims a chosen elite can forever
dominate and exploit the majority of American people. The time will come when the
accumulated disasters will force the American people to push back, unmasking
the elite and rejecting its supremacist doctrines. Let us hope that they will
act with passion guided by reason.

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Delhi-based journalist, having worked for a business magazine and a news agency.
Also worked as a researcher on local democracy and right to information for an NGO.
Having left my latest employment at a magazine on governance, where I contributed to ideation and wrote on public policy from the perspective of common citizens, in September 2010, I am currently engaged in freelancing.
At the NGO, I participated in a rare experiment in bringing face to face the people and their representatives and officials in the municipal bodies. At the business magazine, I wrote on finance, economy, business, education, healthcare, etc. At the news agency, my longest employer so far, I worked on the business and economy desk, but also did some news reporting and writing. I believe we Indians are going through a very slow but sure democratic awakening, which is due to greater flow of information. We must sustain this process of awakening and help each other out of ignorance. This ignorance enslaves us to the elite that currently handles the levers of power.